• Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows Multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It is one of the most efficient platforms for publishing your blog. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google itself, at a subdomain of blogspot.com. You can have up to 100 blogs per account.

• In the beginning all the Blogs were allowed to be published on various other hosting services, but later moved to Google’s own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via custom domain URLs. In layman’s language, we can simple say, Blogger.com is a free platform owned by Google where you can create blogs and share whatever you want to. It may be personal blog or a professional blog on a particular topic. Blogger, which stands for Web Logger, has increased in popularity over the past three years.

History And Stats of Blogger

• On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. This made many features in Blogger.com free!

• In 2004, when Google purchased Picasa, it made users to post photos to their blogs.

• On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email.

History And Stats of Blogger

• On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed “Invader”, alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and had some new features, including interface language in French, Italian, German and Spanish.

• By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved to Google operated servers.

• Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007.

Why Blogger? Features of Blogger

• Now you know what Blogger.com is. But let me tell you why you should choose Blogger as your platform for building a wonderful and professional blog or website. Here are few features of Blogger which are definitely going to amaze you.

Integrated login with Your Google Account

• Blogger.com is directly linked to your Google account, so you can simply log in with that. You just need to create a new blog with a particular Title and Address. The address of your free blog is created with an extension “.blogspot.com”.

• Many Blogging services like Adwords, Adsenseand Webmaster tools for indexing are provided by Google. So instead of adding code into your template you can simply click a button and integrate Adsense banners into your site.

Less Technical

• Creating a blog on Blogger allows a newbie to easily understand and edit the blog. Just basics about html are enough to work efficiently, which is pretty easy. Users of any background (non-technical) can get into Blogger; no high technical knowledge on coding or any language is required.

• In Blogger, there are a number of pre-built templates as well as thousands more available from any number of websites. You can just download the template and upload it on your Blogger blog. Changing the colours can be done by editing the HTML and CSS coding. Make the website your own even in terms of the way it looks.

Change Appearance and Code of Templates

Create Pages, Forums and Discussion groups

• You can create pages, write articles and perform many other operations and directly publish them into the internet world. You can see all the users who have published blogs and even comment or enter information on their blogs. Discussion groups and personal files are housed all within this environment making it a fun place to surf about and learn about different people and things.

• You can even make your readers subscribe to your blog and contact them directly when you post new content or when you make changes on your blog.

Backed Up by Google

• Blogger has the backing of the largest and most powerful Internet Company in the world. As Blogger is hosted directly under Google servers, it is the most secure platform to build a website or blog. Hacking a Blogger blog is next to impossible!

• Also, Blogger never crashes. It can handle huge amounts of traffic at a particular point of time i.e. current visitors to your blog.

Country Specific

• Blogger has integrated all its blogs with multiple user specific URL addresses i.e. “yourtitlename.blogspot.com” will automatically redirect to yourtitlename.blogspot.in in India, yourtitlename.blogspot.us in USA etc.

Integration of Multiple Accounts

• Blogger makes it easy to view all of your blogs via a dashboard feature that links directly to your Google login. When you login, all of your blogs will display, with one-click options to post, edit, or alter posts. The number of blogs and accounts available is nearly endless and makes blogging on multiple topics easier than ever.

Auto-Share

• When you compile and publish a post on blogger, its interface is designed in such a way that it prompts you to share your new post with your Google+ followers, creating more audience for your blog. Blogger also have in-built share button, which means, you don’t have to worry about editing share button code into your blog template.

Blogger on Mobile Devices

• Blogger has also launched mobile applications for users with mobile devices. You can edit or post articles on your blog directly from your mobiles. Not only advanced mobile devices, such as smartphones, are being considered, since users can also post blogs via traditional cell phones by SMS and MMS.

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Third Party Commenting System

• If you want to get more comments on your blog post then you can opt for third party commenting system . There are many third party commenting system available for blogger blogs like Intense Debate, Facebook Commenting System , Disqus etc.

Why You should use Third Party Commenting System?

• Every blogger who is blogging on blogspot platform should shift to Third Party commenting system as soon as possible or else you are going to loose valuable comments and traffic.

• More Comments More Traffic-This is the new SEO Strategy:Yes you you heard right.The more comments you get the more boost you get in search engine ranking.It looks like after Penguin and Panda Updates google is giving more priority to words.Thearticles with more words are ranking higher on googlethan articles with fewer words.

• So Should You Write Articles With More Words?-Answer is No.Articles with more words annoys readers and your readers will loose interest in reading the whole article.Sothe wise idea is to write a article with decent number of words i.e 500-700 words and get more comments on your article.Commentswill also be considered as words for your articles,so the more comments you get greater will be your rank in search engines.

Best Third Party Commenting System for your Blog

A. Disqus (Highly Recommended):Disqus is the Best Third Party Commenting System as of now for blogger blogs.You can remove it whenever you want to and you will not loose any of your previous existing comments as Disqus syncs its comments with the default commenting system of blogger which is one of the great feature of Disqus.Disqus not only syncs the comments but also imports all the existing comments on your blog to Disqus comments,so that you wont loose any of your existing comments.

B. Google Plus:

Google Plus recently introduced this commenting system for Blogger blogs and this feature is great. Google Plus commenting system not only ads social engagement but is also a SEO friendly commenting system.

C. Facebook Commenting System:

– > If you have a very large number of facebookfans then I strongly recommend you to go for facebook commenting system.This doubles your traffic.Whenever a person comments on your blog using his facebook profile then a notification will be sent to all his friends that the person commented on your blog.Use it only if you have a very large number of facebook fans(say 5000+) or else keep reading.

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